BTRFS is a fucking must. Tried resizing a EXT4 partition for a while and failed, no idea why

I also use Bottles with ProtonPlus on NixOS. Bazzite has better integration for crazy stuff too, and a lot is running with full privileges unlike Flatpak.

Just look at their features, they really add a ton. The goal is to become less and less ofc, but Steam will stay proprietary so that will always be a huge change to regular (or atomic) Fedora.

https://bazzite.gg/

https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite?tab=readme-ov-file#about--features

So yeah it is bloated and less secure too, but “just works”

No idea why you would want to get precious data out of DRM-riddled physical media and then somehow devalue it again by putting it back into that format.

HDDs make more sense I suppose

To be a normal DE that works like all other platforms and desktop (apart from macOS maybe, idk, likely also has support)

KDE also uses CSD if apps support it, but if not, apps dont break for no reason

https://slrpnk.net/post/21305064

Keyboard layout is a question of the desktop environment

All distros and environments should support the same amount of regular layouts. A difference is how you switch between them. KDE allows me to use CAPSLOCK to switch, GNOME does not allow that so I use Alt+A.

If you are talking about complex input methods like I guess korean uses, these will use a separate program. These will exist on all big distros but I never tried them.

Arch Wiki entry

This will likely exist on all distros you might encounter. They should all have a website to search for packages, which you can use before installing

For example

• Opensuse
• Debian (as always less user friendly lol)
• Fedora

That depends on your preferences

https://slrpnk.net/post/21305064

https://www.procustodibus.com/blog/2023/04/wireguard-netns-for-specific-apps/

https://volatilesystems.org/wireguard-in-a-separate-linux-network-namespace.html

https://github.com/dadevel/wg-netns

https://www.ismailzai.com/blog/creating-wireguard-jails-with-linux-network-namespace

On NixOS:

https://vtimofeenko.com/posts/wireguard-namespace-flake/

One of these should work

Try oniux for that, exactly what you need

Otherwise look into oniux and how to replace arti with wireguare/shadowsocks/xray/amneziawg

LOL

It does? I use it on KDE Wayland

Extra checked the name of the thing

I use it to change brightness via KDE Connect.

windows updates often reset (unknown!) settings

Which is an effect of trying to manage a chaotic system. NixOS solves this by having strict checks but giving users the ability to configure their system.

The system is very mutable but centrally controlled.

Windows has an idea how it wants to look like, but at the same time grants software all sorts of crazy permissions. Adobe software doesnt run when “storage protection mode against ransomware” is enabled for example.

The Windows store apps are better isolated, with permissions etc. But same as on Linux with Flatpak, Software vendors dont want to change their software to be less invasive.

I mean Windows pretty much thrives off the fact that you rely on random 3rd party software like drivers to be able to be installable externally and run with very high privileges. So they dont need to do the work.

the weird part being that windows is that stable even with the chaos it does in its system files

Microsoft is 1000 times the size if RedHat, Canonical or SUSE, if not more. They just throw lots of money at it.

Also it is mission critical, so you can kinda expect vendors to test their software better, a bit.

Not always (crowdstrike lol)

mint is supposed to undo shit decisions of ubuntu

Yes for sure. I just meant software compatibility, but I assume I made that up from the back of my head. I only had one Docker issue, thats it.

I don’t get it either, LMDE is treated as a testing project by mint

No idea what is so hard about it, things like these just show how small this project is! It is literally an Ubuntu LTS downstream, nothing crazy. But 2/3 beginners use it, which is kinda insane.

distros should let the user be able to defer updates, but make them effortless to install.

Agreed. Though as said, a good software management concept with atomic updates and rollbacks, as well as tested software (and a damn longterm kernel, Fedora) doesnt need people wondering if they should update.

Unless you are a power-poweruser, not updating is a baseless gut decision. With a good system you dont need to do that.

people complain about forced windows updates all the time and for good reasons.

Because Windows updates take long and cause downtime. Also forcing reboots is not great (though I dont know if they just do that if there was a real vulnerability, that would be fine)

Windows updates are pretty damn fine. Overengineered, maybe? But the system is not immutable, so they do checksums everywhere, to validate the OS.

OSTree or NixOS do it better, but have way bigger downsides. Maybe not compared to Windows, they should just fix their stuff.

But I guess Windows updates are more stable than typical Linux updates, more tests etc.

did you see how kde plasma 6 does it nowadays? its on the shutdown button. that is the way.

That is fine, but only makes sense with package-based distros that have some kind of parallel miniature system running the updates.

Basically what Windows does, and Fedora now too.

Atomic updates are WAY better. No downtime and still more stable than running a very small live OS replacing itself. Maybe the live OS is in RAM, idk.

Uhm I think you mean Leap. Slowroll is really new and an amazing concept.

Semi-rolling with a few packports and a short feature delay of 3 months.

Fedora is fine, but they dont have the longterm kernel. You can stay on the older supported version for more stable software.

Fedora KDE broke for me once with very very nontrivially fixable DNF and RPM issues. Pretty insane. Fedora upgrades are messy and weird.

Fedora Atomic though is nearly unbreakable. Though, NixOS might be better as /etc (and with home-manager /home) are manages and dont accumulate garnage and state

Last time I tried something was automatic but not updates, just reminders.

While I am personally fine with manually updating, I really dont want to need to

Where? How?

Because… people need systems that work??

Not everyone can fix a broken system every month

Lol do you have 2 alt accounts? XDD

I was bored. Nowadays I would like to store sensible data (i.e. any personal data) on my laptop, so I use Linux

Default Linux Mint, ubuntu based.

Installed on an old laptop, 2 old macbooks, one crazy powerful PC of my uncle.

This is a cinnamon issue. Maybe their wayland session is better now, I can hope so. Still, due to the modular nature of Wayland, either they make their own stack or use something else.

Would be nice to join XFCE, Budgie etc, but they prefer their own thing.

Cinnamon and Mint are fine projects for what they are. Small, pretty outdated community projects. But it is incredible how the ratio of users/developers explodes on Mint compared to anything else.

Probably because it is targeted at non-developers.